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- Medical Video: Healthy diet may reduce, even eliminate, menopause symptoms - In Depth
- The content of phytoestrogens in soy can help alleviate menopausal symptoms
- Soy-based foods also contain isoflavones, which are good for women of menopausal age
Medical Video: Healthy diet may reduce, even eliminate, menopause symptoms - In Depth
One phase that can provide anxiety for women is menopause. The menopause phase itself is a sign for women if they have started to age and will experience a variety of hormonal changes that make the body uncomfortable, such as emotional ups and downs, dry vagina, hot flashes, or even heavy sweating at night. But calm down. Various studies report that it is actually easy for you to relieve this troublesome menopause symptom. One of them is to multiply eating soybeans, for example tempeh, tofu, edamame, or soy milk. Why is that?
The content of phytoestrogens in soy can help alleviate menopausal symptoms
Joint research team from the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and Cambridge University in the UK conducted a study involving 6,653 women, to find out whether natural ingredients like food or herbs could have a major influence on the menopause phase. Approximately 40 to 50 percent of women participating in the study admitted that these natural ingredients could relieve menopausal symptoms in women.
One type of food or drink that is quite popular with women to relieve menopausal symptoms is soy-based foods. Soybeans are known to contain phytoestrogens, natural chemical compounds that have a function similar to the female hormone estrogen.
Phytoestrogens in soybeans reported to be able to overcome hot flashes (sensation of heat in the body) and vaginal dryness, two things that are most commonly experienced by most women during menopause. Unfortunately, researchers found that soybeans were not able to reduce the amount of sweat that came out at night.
Fortunately, foods with soy ingredients tend to be very easy to find in Indonesia. Not only tempeh or tofu, some foods or drinks from soy ingredients such as soybean juice and red clover (red clover) It is also equally good to help alleviate menopausal symptoms.
Soy-based foods also contain isoflavones, which are good for women of menopausal age
Hormone therapy has never been predicted as a good idea to reduce the pain that may be experienced due to menopause. However, such medical care actually increases the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Now about 40 percent to 50 percent of women in Western countries use plant-based therapy and drugs to relieve menopausal symptoms. Soy-based foods such as tofu, miso, tempeh and edamame are known to contain a lot of isoflavones, which are effective in relieving menopausal symptoms.
In Western countries, very few people eat foods that contain a lot of isoflavones every day, they only consume about 2 milligrams per day. Meanwhile in Asian countries, an average of 25-50 milligrams is consumed. To relieve menopausal symptoms, a dose of 10-100 milligrams of isoflavone is needed per day.
Drinking two glasses of soy milk can also reduce the effects of menopause, such as blushing and feeling hot. Those who consume 1-2 servings of soybeans every day will be able to reduce cholesterol, osteoporosis, dementia and breast cancer problems.
